In This Newsletter - Burning tires in the time of cholera - An update from Port-au-Prince - An update from northern Haiti - SOIL In The News - What SOIL is doing to combat the cholera epidemic - A visiting Notre Dame student tests SOIL's compost for pathogens - Holy Crap! (the film) - SOIL in Action....
By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, December 1, 2010 Nicholas D. Kristof reports from Haiti about toilets that aim to address the sanitation problems that lead to cholera, while also providing fertilizer to help farmers. [embed] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lie8RlRu1r8 [/embed]
By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, December 1, 2010 An emergency cholera hospital is the grimmest kind of medical center, and it’s a symbol of the succession of horrors that have battered Haiti over the last year. Here in Haiti’s central plateau, I visited a cholera treatment center run by....
By Genevra Pittman, Onearth Magazine, November 18, 2010 When Haiti’s cholera outbreak hit tent camps around Port-au-Prince in early November, Sasha Kramer was ready. Kramer is the executive director of SOIL ( Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), a n organization she co-founded in 2006. SOIL....
By Mara Gay, Haiti Rewired, November 17, 2010 Even before the country’s first cholera epidemic in more than six decades began to creep its way across the struggling country, leaving sickness and fear behind in a land that needed neither, Sasha Kramer knew that sanitation in Haiti was a matter of....
SOIL volunteer, Corinne Coe, helped us put together a beautiful calendar featuring the best photos from our Looking Through Their Eyes photo empowerment project and we now need your help distributing them. All proceeds from calendar sales will directly benefit SOIL's ongoing relief work. Please help....
The worst case scenario has happened - cholera has arrived in Port-au-Prince - and SOIL is continuing to do everything possible to limit the spread of the disease, to provide safe sanitation services, and to keep people informed on the best methods to prevent and treat it. SOIL's "Ajan Prevansyon" /....
It is cool and cloudy in Haiti this morning, and we've gotten reports that Tropical Storm Tomas has mostly blown by. SOIL's agronomist, Jean Marie Noel, is on his way out to our main compost site to check on the damage, SOIL's deputy director, Nick Preneta, is fielding updates from the camps where....
By Isabeau Doucet, Christian Science Monitor, November 4, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Between 500 and 900 cubic meters of raw sewage is dumped daily at Troutier, according to Theo Huitema, World Vision’s water and sanitation expert. He disagrees that the sewage is necessarily contaminating the local water supply, though he says that it would be better to dump it further outside the city. But Sasha Kramer of SOIL, an NGO that has constructed dry compost toilets in Haiti since 2004, says the decision to unload human waste into the city’s garbage dump at Troutier was disastrous. “They need to close off Troutier, put a fence around the pits, and have patrols out there monitoring and cleaning,” she says.
Thank you for keeping us in your hearts as you read the news about the spreading cholera outbreak in Haiti. SOIL has the dubious honor of being one of the very few organizations or institutions actually treating human waste (as opposed to the typical practice of dumping it untreated into locations....